How to Copy Pat McGrath's Gorgeous Handiwork at Dolce & Gabbana

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Dolce and Gabbana’s runway beauty has become synonymous with “the look we most want to wear in real life” each season. There’s always something a little Sophia Loren about it: elegant, grown-up, but utterly wearable glam. Here’s how legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath built the luminous look at yesterday’s show in Milan.

Ancient Sicily served as inspiration for the designers, Stefano and Domenico, so McGrath wanted a “gilded” look around the models’ eyes. She started with shadow, the lighter shades in the Gold and Desert Eyeshadow Quad ($59), followed by Crayon Intense Eyeliner ($30) in both Chocolate and Nude all the way around each eye, with just a flick of Liquid Liner ($34) in Baroque at the end of the top lashline, and generous layers of Passioneyes Duo Mascara ($32) in black.

To finish, McGrath mixed two new lipsticks from Dolce: Bellissima and Traviata. (Try #300 Pink ($32) until they hit next spring.) A tip: “The color was applied with greater intensity at the cupid’s bow for better definition and a striking finish.”

Striking? Yes. Difficult? No! You don’t have to be the next Pat McGrath to pull this one together.